Colin Peacock

Broadcasters blurring the boundary between advertising and journalism; how our universities and polytechnics are engaging the media today - and could contribute more in the future. Audio

This week the Mediawatch team looks at: the controversial publication of National Standards stats; an overseas investigation unreported here; TVNZ cuts another current affairs show; Paul Henry hassled… Audio

A right royal row over private pictures; shots fired over the blurred boundary between old and new media; The ODT's editor on resisting reinvention; which paper had its eagle eye on the Russia's Tsar?

The Mediawatch team runs through listeners' queries and comments and updates recent stories from the programme - with guest Alison McCullough. This month: The Herald's new format; flaky columns… Audio

Mediawatch talks to some overseas experts about the ways 'new media' are now colliding with the old - TV, radio and newspapers - in the digital age. Fast-growing online outlets now deliver news… Audio

An outsider's view of the media response to disaster and recovery in Canterbury and Pike River; one year on from the death of the UK's top-selling tabloid, is the world better off without The News of… Audio

A TV veteran tells Mediawatch about four decades in investigative journalism, and why he now fears for the future of it here. Mediawatch also looks at how a minister's move to bypass the media… Audio

The steroid scandal that turned silver into gold at the Olympics; a new proposal to persuade the public to pay for journalism - and the view of a veteran - and; the Aussie entrepreneur spending a… Audio

The media burst the bubble after Olympic setbacks; who is broadcasting what - and from where?; another ignored embargo; will the public pay for new journalism in New Zealand? Audio

The Mediawatch team runs through listeners' queries and comments, and updates recent stories from the programme. This month: the Scott Guy trial coverage and the 'court of public opinion'; the end of… Audio

Mediawatch looks at who was calling the shots in the coverage of the plan the remake the centre of Christchurch - and why one outlet's under fire for failing to play by the rules; what happened when… Audio

Mediawatch looks at new ways of paying for quality journalism overseas, and proposals to revamp a key tool for journalists here - the Official Informational Act. Also this week: why we'll be getting… Audio

The coverage of Owen Glenn's big-money plans to change New Zealand; the survival struggle of the US news media; why TV shows you paid for are nowhere to be found; cultural friction with the Germans… Audio

The focus on a leading lawyer in the Scott Guy trial - and could the coverage of it prompt a push-back against reporting from courts in the furture?; The ACC saga: a triumph for investigative… Audio

The media makes a drama of Scott Guy's murder; the Minister of Broadcasting on the government's policy and what we get for the millions spent on broadcasting; newspaper columnists caught out by the… Audio

The end of TVNZ7 and what's left for free-to-air viewers; a New Zealand newspaper editor heads for turbulence in Australia - as a former Kiwi colleague walks away from it and Kim Dotcom turns around… Audio

A big shake-up of the Australian company that owns many of our papers; a scary story that worried women sick; did taxpayers get their money's worth from controversial TV show The GC? and; yet another… Audio

Emotional coverage of a high-profile trial; Australian newspapers exporting journalists' jobs here; a redneck radio response to football failure; and confusing commentary from last weekend's test… Audio

The backlash after the coverage of the Queen's diamond jubilee; a journalist taking transparency to great lengths; how the bad boy of broadcasting is going down in Australia; a fast-food company… Audio

The Mediawatch team runs through listeners' queries and comments - and updates recent stories from Mediawatch. This month: geographical goofs; journalists' conflicts of interest; cash for tweets… Audio